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KEELLESS.<br />
Keelless (kfl,li-s), a. [f. KEEL **.i + -LESS.]<br />
1. Of a boat : Having no keel.<br />
1879 Daily News 7 Apr. 3/3 The worst crew that either<br />
University has sent to Putney since the days when keelless<br />
boats first came into use, just 22 years ago. 1896 /IV..////.<br />
Cat. TO June 5/2, 1 was out since six o'clock in my shallow<br />
keelless boat.<br />
2. Zool. Having no keel along the breast-bone.<br />
1884 G. ALLEN in Longm. Mag. Jan. 293 Keelless and<br />
often almost wingless birds. 1886 Century Mag. XXXI.<br />
358 This great order of the Ratita:, or keelless birds. 1895<br />
Pop. Sci. .Monthly Apr. 762 All had keelless sterna.<br />
Keelman ! (krlm&n). [KEEI. sb.*\ One who<br />
works on a keel or barge.<br />
1516 Patent Roll 8 Hen. VIII, Pt. i, m. 15-16 (P. R. O.)<br />
The craftes of. .Porters, Kelemen, Sclalters. 1592 Wills<br />
f, Inv. N. C. (Surlees 1860) 251 Henrie Robinsone of the<br />
towne of Newcastell-upon-Tyne, keillman. 1695 Land.<br />
Gaz. No..3iQ3/3 Newcastle, June 12... The Keel Men are<br />
gone to work again. 1774 WESLEY Wks. (1872) IV. 21 In<br />
the morning 1 preached at the Ballast-Hills among the<br />
glassmen, keelmen, and sailors. 1829 SOUTHEY Sir T. More<br />
(1831) II. 56 It has become a place of colliers and keelmen.<br />
Kee'lmau *. Sc. [KEEL sb.y\<br />
1. A dealer in keel or ruddle.<br />
1796 Ace. in Scott Old Mart. Introd. (1862) 8 To 3 Chappins<br />
of Yell with Sandy the Keelman, 009.<br />
2. One of a class of Irish linen -dealers (see quot.).<br />
1821 BRENNER Irish Linen Trade in CasselFs Gt. Indust.<br />
Gt.Brit. (1878-80)!!. xvL 196 The' Keelmen 'were so-called<br />
from the first persons who got into the trade being very<br />
illiterate, and, unable to write in ordinary characters, they<br />
marked on each piece of linen the price at which it was<br />
bought with '<br />
keel '.<br />
Keels, variant of KAYLES.<br />
Keelson (also Keelsale), var. KELSON.<br />
t Keel-toll. 06s. [f. KEEL rf.i (or ?rf.2) +<br />
TOLL.] = KEELAGE.<br />
? 1499 in Gross did Merck. II. 44 (Chester) De qualibet<br />
Naue intrante libertatem predictam cum quibuscunque<br />
maicandisis seu victualibus vocatum Keyltoll iiii..<br />
[a. Ir. caoine (krno), f. caoinim<br />
(Olr. cainim, coinini) I weep, wail, lament ; cf.<br />
KEEN v.-} An Irish funeral song accompanied<br />
with wailing in lamentation for the dead.<br />
1830 CROFTON CROKER in Fraser's Mag. I. 191 The following<br />
Keens .. I have translated from the Irish. 1841<br />
S. C. HALL Ireland I. 226 The keener having finished a<br />
stanza of the keen, sets up the wail. 1895 Q. Rev. Oct. 319<br />
His mother was famed . . for her skill in giving the keen.<br />
Keen (kin), a. (adv.) Forms: i c6ne, 2-6<br />
kene, 3-4 ken, 4-7 keene, (5 Sc. keyne, 6<br />
kein(e), 7- keen. [Com. Teut. : OE. ct!>ie = OS.<br />
"koni (MDu. coene, Du. koen}, MI.G. kSne, keene,<br />
OHG. chdni, chuoni (MHG. kueiu, G. kilhn}, ON.<br />
kacnn: OTeut. *konjo-. T<strong>here</strong> are no cognates<br />
outside of Teutonic.<br />
The original meaning is somewhat obscure. The prominent<br />
sense in OE., as in Low and High German, was that<br />
of '<br />
'<br />
bold, brave ,' but ON. ktenn meant only expert, skilful,<br />
clever ', a sense also represented in OE. (ODa. kion, kon,<br />
OSw. kon, tyn, '<br />
bold are ', app. from LG., the original Scand.<br />
'<br />
sense being found in ODa. lovkion learned in the law '.)<br />
It has been suggested that the ON. sense is the original<br />
one, the connecting link with the other being the idea of<br />
'skilled in war , 'expert in battle' (-ON. vlgka-nn), but<br />
t<strong>here</strong> is no clear evidence of this. The development of the<br />
specifically English sense 'sharp' is also obscure.]<br />
1 1. Wise, learned, clever. Obs. {Cf. 7 b.)<br />
a looo Boeth. Metr. x. 51 Se waes uflwita aelces binges<br />
cene and craftij, bwm was Caton nama. c 1205 LAY. 4989<br />
Pa aide quene, a wifmon wis and kene. a 1225 Leg. Kath.<br />
2070 Beo nu ken & cnawes . . hu heh & hu hali is (>es cristencs<br />
godd. 13 .. E. E. Allit. P. B. 1575 per comen mony<br />
Clerkcs out of Caldye bat kennest wer knauen.<br />
1 2. a. Brave, bold, valiant, daring. Obs.<br />
^897 K. ALFRED Gregory's Past, xxxiii. 218 Betra biS se<br />
XeSyldcsa wer Sonne se stronga & se kena. 993 Battle of<br />
Maldon 215 Nu m.-ts cunnian hwa cene sy.<br />
naoo ORMIN<br />
19962 Godess bodeword . . to kibenn forh Biforenn kafe &<br />
kene. c 1205 LAY. 520 He nom his kene men ha to compe<br />
weren gode. a 1300 K. Horn 164 Whannes beo }e, faire<br />
gumes,. .Of bodie swibe kene.
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